Kiranya Chappell Chumtong

A KPI that I often use is the time is takes me to drive from the Temple campus to my work (King of Prussia). This is specific and measurable because I am only timing how long it takes to get from Temple to work using a timer. It is achievable because I can try different routes to get to work faster. It’s relevant because being on time to work i…[Read more]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2628895-25-recent-jaw-dropping-sports-stats

This article is interesting and relevant to me because I plan to work in sports after college. This article relates sports to statistical data and how sports can be evaluated using such data – whether it improves or devaluates the sport.This article is interesting…[Read more]

The most important take-away in my point of view if how prevalent data is in our everyday lives, and how it is used in almost any field (not just business) so it is very important to know and understand what makes up data and how data interacts with each other and the world around us. I would tell a future MIS scholar that this course is all about…[Read more]

Think about a data-driven service that you use regularly (i.e., Blackboard, Amazon.com, Facebook). Imagine you want to store the data for that service in a spreadsheet – what would each row in the spreadsheet represent? What would some of the data columns be?

I use blackboard on a daily basis, for homework assignments, grades, etc. Each row w…[Read more]

http://www.dataversity.net/fighting-dysfunctional-cycle-data-chaos/

This data emphasizes dirty data and how its affected current data. Dirty data has hindered the input of new data in modern day. “They spend ‘ridiculous amounts of time hunting for missing data, correcting inaccurate data, creating workarounds, pasting data together and r…[Read more]

Out of the Stephen Few’s eight principles of data visualization, I think the most important principle is to compare. This is because often it is hard to imagine data and it’s magnitude. But when you are able to both provide visuals of the data and on top of that compare it to other data, it is easier to understand the significance of the data you…[Read more]

http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/demographic-statistics-by-zip-code-acfc9

What dataset did you find
The dataset I found is Demographic Statistics by Zip Code in New York

Where did you find it
I found it on data.gov

Why did you think it was interesting
I thought it was interesting because it demonstrated how diverse New York is, and how much the demographics can change simply based on zip code; whether it be…[Read more]